New Year Archives - A Simple Life of Luxury https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/tag/new-year/ Tales from a down-shifted family - Making the most of modest means in West Wales Thu, 01 Jan 2026 08:26:14 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-favicon-160x160.jpg New Year Archives - A Simple Life of Luxury https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/tag/new-year/ 32 32 2696646 Jetlagged into 2026 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2026/01/jetlagged-into-2026/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2026/01/jetlagged-into-2026/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 2026 06:31:23 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=47618 Happy New Year everyone — let’s hope 2026 is a good one. Anna and I were still a little jet-lagged from our journey home from the Philippines, and our digestive systems hadn’t quite recovered either. However, before going on holiday we’d booked a table at Libanus 1877 in Borth for a New Year’s Eve meal,...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2026/01/jetlagged-into-2026/feed/ 2 47618 A Quiet New Year in a Smart House https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2022/01/a-quiet-new-year-in-a-smart-house/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2022/01/a-quiet-new-year-in-a-smart-house/#comments Mon, 10 Jan 2022 10:03:09 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=37035 Well, we’re 10 days into 2022 and I’ve yet to write a blog post. New Years is usually quiet for us, but this is ridiculous! There just hasn’t really been anything exciting happening. New Year The New year was a quiet one for us. Anna and I went for a stroll around Furnace a couple...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2022/01/a-quiet-new-year-in-a-smart-house/feed/ 1 37035 New Year Weekend Away https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2017/01/new-year-weekend-away/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2017/01/new-year-weekend-away/#respond Mon, 02 Jan 2017 17:21:42 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=23643 We haven’t long been back from a nice little weekend away for the New Year. Thanks to an invite from Dennis and Sophie, we actually had something to do for New Year for a change We drove down to theirs on Saturday morning. We then spent the weekend walking along the Teifi, geocaching, eating, drinking...

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